Where: Hebei, China (41.0° N, 117.5° E: paleocoordinates 42.9° N, 119.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Sichakou Member (Huajiying Formation), Hauterivian (132.9 - 129.4 Ma)
• Protopteryx horizon, 130.7 Ma
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: soft parts
Collection methods: Tianyu Natural History Museum of Shandong, Pingyi, China (STM)
Primary reference: X. Wang, J. K. O'Connor, X. Zheng, M. Wang, H. Hu and Z. Zhou. 2014. Insights into the evolution of rachis dominated tail feathers from a new basal enantiornithine (Aves: Ornithothoraces). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 113:806-819 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 163268: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 19.10.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Eopengornis martini n. gen. n. sp.
Eopengornis martini n. gen. n. sp. Wang et al. 2014 bird STM24-1, an almost complete and fully articulated subadult individual preserved in a slab (primarily ventral view
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